Kashan Admani
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Biography
Kashan Admani is a Pakistani musician, music producer, guitar player, and founder of music band Mizmaar. Born in Karachi, Kashan has performed with underground bands and established bands in the likes of Strings. He took to keyboards with he was only 5 years old and by the time he reached 4th grade, he had composed his first song.
Early life and career
Kashan Admani began his mainstream career with his band Mizmaar and he released his debut album Kash in 2003. In his career, Kashan has performed with renowned musicians of Pakistan including Strings, Najam Sheraz, Haroon, Junoon (band) Strings, Faakhir, Shuja Haider, and many others. He is also the founder and owner of state of the art music production facility Dream Station Productions located in Karachi. Kashan Admani has had many accolades in the world of music including his song Sitara featuring in Hollywood movie Dragon War. He has also been producing music of various TVCs for multiple brands. He has also produced the debut album for the band Raeth (band). He has also produced songs and albums for multiple artists like Najam Sheraz, Haroon, Usman Riaz, and others.
Mizmaar
Kashan Admani formed Mizmaar in 2000 with drummer Roger Faria, bassist Russell Owen, and vocalist Rehan-ul-Haq. The band also performed in Pepsi Battle of the Bands in 2002. Post Pepsi Battle of the Bands, Rehan-ul-Haq parted ways and Daniyal Badshah joined Mizmaar as the vocalist. The band has released two albums Kash and Sitara. Their second album Sitara was released by Universal Music India.
Solo career
Recently, Kashan Admani assembled 31 artists for a song Taare that was also featured in Gulf News. His production facility Dream Station Productions is Pakistan's first international standard, commercial 7:1 surround audio recording and post production facility in Karachi. Currently, he is working on his guitar album with Simon Phillips from Toto and also invited him to Pakistan to record and conduct a masterclass.
Coke Studio
Kashan Admani appeared in Coke Studio Season 9 as a house band member and worked on a number of songs including Afreen Afreen, and Janay Na Tu. He also worked with Abida Parveen, Ali Sethi, Zeb Bangash, Ahmed Jahenzeb, Umair Jaswal, and Meesha Shafi during the show.
Acoustic Station
Kashan Admani has launched his own music web series named Acoustic Station through Dream Station Productions. This web series has 14 episodes and each episode comes out on Wednesday. Kashmir - The Band has featured in the inaugural episode and performed their song Soch. In the second episode, Maha Ali Kazmi made an appearance with a cover of Kashmiri song Sahibo. The third episode featured Latif Ali Khan who performed a Saraiki song Lolak. The fourth episode featured Nida Hussain with an original song Jee Loon.